Using Statistical Tools for Improving Bioprocesses

Advanced Statistical Tools for Improving Yield and Reliability

Analysis of manufacturing data as a tool for failure analysts often meets with roadblocks due to the complex non-linear behaviors of the relationships between failure rates and explanatory variables drawn from process history. The current work describes how the use of a comprehensive engineering database and data mining technology overcomes some of these difficulties and enables new classes of ...

using c-test passages for improving reading comprehension ability and incidentally learned vocabulary of iranian efl learners

this study was an attempt to investigate the effect of using c-test passages on the reading comprehension and incidental vocabulary learning of iranian intermediate efl learners. the participants were 60 male efl learners at kish mehr institute in garmsar. in fact, there were two groups, an experimental group and a comparison group with 30 students in each. the participants were pretested throu...

Inferential Model Predictive Control Using Statistical Tools

Title of dissertation: INFERENTIAL MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL USING STATISTICAL TOOLS Kedar Himanshu Dave, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 Dissertation directed by: Professor Thomas J. Mc Avoy Department of Chemical Engineering With an ever increasing emphasis on reducing costs and improving quality control, the application of advanced process control in the bulk chemical and petrochemical industry is...

Improving Teaching Effectiveness Using Distance Education Tools

Distance education is now an integral part of offering courses in many institutions. With increasing access to the Internet, the importance of distance education will only grow. But, to date, the specific benefits that distance education brings to student learning objectives remain unclear. We first propose a framework that links student performance and satisfaction to the learning environment ...

Tools for Formal Statistical Inference